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‘Endless Cookie’ Review: Colorful Anecdotes About Indigenous Canadian Life Amuse in Wacky Animated Doc
Half-brothers Seth and Peter Scriver collaborate in a visually absurdist collection of painful and uplifting memories told through cartoony vignettes.
“Endless Cookie” simultaneously chronicles the making of the project itself, which took nine years to complete, from receiving government funds to the different stages and challenges of recording Pete’s anecdotes at the crowded home in isolated and frozen Shamattawa (there’s only one store in town) that he shares with nearly a dozen family members and 10 dogs (one of them depicted as a bizarre, four-legged interpretation of Mr. Peanut). Seth Scriver, the artistic lead in “Endless Cookie,” allows for the trains of thought to feel loose, reflecting the in-the-moment quality of his time traveling from Toronto to Shamattawa to capture the choir of voices interjecting and guiding the animation. Brief cutaways — such as one where a mug of coffee throws in a quick quip or a sentient car seat listens to news radio programs on timely sociopolitical issues — are common as part of the film’s enjoyably meandering construction.
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